Sometimes I just feel like, quittin' I still Why do I put up fight, why do I still write Sometimes it's hard enough just dealin' real life Sometimes I wanna jump on and just kill mics And show these people what my of skill's like But I'm still white, sometimes I just hate ain't right, hit the brake lights Case of the stage fright, drawin a like Da-duh-duh-da-da, it ain't my Great big eyeballs, my crawl And I clam up I just slam shut I can't do it, my whole manhood's Just stripped, I have just been vicked So I must then get, off the bus split Man fuck this yo, I'm goin' the fuck home World on my shoulders as I run back to 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, I'mma make a new Time for me to just stand up, and new land Time to really just take into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man never look back (8 Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel alone Ain't gon' the footsteps I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to from this 8 Mile Road
I'm these train tracks, tryin' to regain back The I had 'fore I go back to the same crap To the same plant, and the pants Tryin' to chase rap, gotta ASAP And get a new plan, got a new man Poor little baby sister, she don't Sits in front of the TV, her nose in the pad And just until the crayon gets dull in her hand While she colors her big and mother and dad Ain't no tellin' what really goes on in her head Wish I be the daddy that neither one of us had But I keep from somethin' I never wanted so bad! I get upset, cause I ain't blew up yet It's like I grew up, but I ain't me two nuts yet Don't gotta rep my step, don't got pep The pressure's too much man, I'm just tryin' to do best And I try, sit and I cry Yo I won't no lie, not a moment goes by That I don't pray to the sky, I'm beggin' you God Please don't let me be in no regular job Yo I hope you can hear me wherever you are Yo I'm you dawg I'm bailin' this trailer tomorrow Tell my mother I love her, kiss sister goodbye Say whenever you me baby, I'm never too far But yo I get out there, the only way I know And I'mma be for you, the second that I blow On everything I own, make it on my own Off to work I go, to this 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, I'mma make a new Time for me to just stand up, and travel new Time to really just take into my own hands Once I'm over these man I'mma never look back (8 Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel alone Ain't gon' follow the I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Road
You live it to feel it, you didn't you wouldn't get it Or see what the big is, why it was and it still is To be walkin borderline of Detroit city limits It's different, it's a certain significance, a Of authenticity, you'd even see But it's everything to me, it's my You never heard smelled or met a real MC incredible upon the same pedestal as me But yet I'm unsigned, havin' a rough time Sit on the porch with all my friends and dumb rhymes Go to work and MCs in the lunchline But it comes crunch time, where do my punchlines go Who must I show, to bust my Where must I go, who I know Or am I just another in the bucket Cause I ain't havin' no luck with this Rabbit foot so fuck it Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm startin to doubt I'm a little skeptical who I hang out with I look like a bum, yo my ain't about shit At the Salvation Army tryin to salvage an And it's cold, tryin' to travel this Plus I feel I'm on stuck in this battlin mode My defenses are so up, but one thing I don't Is from no one, the city is no fun There is no sun, and so dark Sometimes I feel I'm just bein' pulled apart From each one of my limbs, by one of my friends enough to just make me wanna jump out of my skin Sometimes I like a robot, sometimes I just know not What I'm I just blow, my head is a stove top I just explode, the kettle so hot Sometimes my mouth just overloads the ass that I got But I've learned, it's for me to U-turn Yo it only takes one time for me to get no fallin' no next time I meet a new girl I can no longer play stupid or be I got ingredient, all I need is the courage I already got the beat, all I need is the words Got the urge, suddenly it's a Suddenly a new burst of energy has Time to show these free leaders the 3 and a third I am no longer now, I'm free as a bird Then I and cross over the median curb Hit the and all you see is a blur from 8 Mile Road
I'm a man, I'mma a new plan Time for me to just stand up, and new land Time to really just matters into my own hands Once I'm over these tracks man I'mma never back (8 Mile Road) And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin momma I'm grown, I must travel alone Ain't gon' follow the I'm makin' my own Only way that I know how to escape from 8 Mile Road